Month: May 2009
Uninstall Products using VB script
The below lines are for VBS script file you can use to uninstall 1 strComputer = "." 2 Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ 3 & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\" & strComputer & "rootcimv2") 4 Set colSoftware = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ 5 ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Product WHERE Vendor = ‘Hewlett-Packard’") 6 For Each objSoftware in colSoftware 7 objSoftware.Uninstall() 8 Next […]
Upgrade from the Windows 7 beta to the Release Candidate
Source:http://windowsitpro.com/ Q. How do I upgrade from the Windows 7 beta to the Release Candidate? A. There’s no officially supported way to upgrade from the beta of Windows 7 (build 7000) to the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100). Microsoft developers wanted to focus on the common end user upgrade experience, which will be from […]
Uninstall Products using Powershell
I am trying to uninstall a product I have recently added to my Windows and i tried to access the normal way of uninstallation which you can go Control PanelProgramsPrograms and Features The problem is that the product I am trying to uninstall is not displayed there, although the product is available in the start […]
Adding Microsoft Virtual Server to VMM
In this article I am just adding step by step guide on how to add Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 ( the snapshot are from VMM 2008 R2) From the VMM Admin Console select Add Host from the Action Menu/Pane $Credential = get-credential $VMHostGroup = Get-VMHostGroup -VMMServer […]
Free 4 GB by Moving the Page file
I have Dual boot person I have Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2. I am running Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 r2, and I always need more disk space in the Windows Server 2008 r2 drive. I remember one old trick which is moving the page file to one partition for both OSs Open […]
Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Q2)
Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Q2) It is time to update everyone on the types of issues our support engineers have been seeing for Hyper-V. The issues are categorized below with the top issue(s) in each category listed with possible resolutions and additional comments as needed. I think you […]
Virtual Windows XP – Windows 7 XP mode
I was searching for what is Windows 7 XP mode? I found it was published in Microsoft Technet under the name of Windows Virtual PC http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx?pv=36:350 I am just testing Windows 7 XP mode which allow you to run Windows XP SP3 under Windows 7 to have full backward compatibility. the download consists of two […]
Month Blog Summary
Windows 7 Articles: How to Boot your Machine from VHD using Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 http://mahmoudthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/03/boot-your-physical-machine-from-vhd.html How to convert VHD for Windows 7 to be used in Microsoft PC and Hyper-V http://mahmoudthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/05/converting-windows-7-boot-from-vhd-to.html WMI Articles: I have also added a new series of articles under the name of "What is WMI" to give you […]
Converting Windows 7 boot from VHD to be VM under Hyper-V or any Virtualization boots VHD
When you install Windows 7 on your machine but not directly to your hard disk but to a VHD file in your physical disks I have created article named Boot your physical machine from a VHD file describing the installation process. In some cases you may want to take this VHD and to make it […]
1- What is WMI?
As, I promised I will try to give you a solid background about Windows Management Instrumentation WMI. I will write multiple articles with the name of What is WMI. I will start by start by Microsoft Management Console ending by WS-management in Windows server 2008 and its R2 In this article I will tell you […]